Following delivery of the extension to the Niroth plant in Phnom Penh earlier this year, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a new water-management contract on August 8 in the Cambodian capital. This contract, valued at US$23.5 million, calls for rebuilding the Chamkar Mon water treatment plant, located right in the city of Phnom Penh. The project will receive financing from Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
Starting in September, our teams will begin demolishing the existing plant, which has a capacity of 20,000 cubic metres a day. Subsequently, they will design-build a new plant with a much-improved capacity of 52,000 cubic metres a day. The project will require two years to complete.
The second contract, valued at US$10.4 million, was signed on June 22, 2017 and concerns the water treatment plant in Siem Reap. This project involves designing and building a water-intake structure with a capacity of 30,000 cubic metres a day, increasing the plant’s current production capacity by 15,000 cubic metres a day, and installing a 6.5-km transfer pipe.
The contract calls for 14 months of construction and 4 months of start-up operations. Tourism development in Siem Reap, the site of the Angkor Wat temple complex, is what is driving the growing need for water.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets has been informed that frauds and scams have been attempted, in France and worldwide, particularly involving the misuse of its identity and even the identity of one of its employees.
The fraudsters send e-mails to suppliers and/or service providers requesting the opening of customer accounts or containing orders, using forged addresses such as« @vinci-constructions.com »,« @vinciconstruction-projets.fr » or « @vinci-grands-projets.net ».
The e-mails may be signed by persons who actually hold positions within the Group (with the name, address and company registration number of Eurovia or one of its subsidiaries), and may be accompanied by VINCI Construction Grands Projets legal documents.
These are attempted frauds: VINCI Construction Grands Projets only references its suppliers in the context of strict and rigorous procedures, and do not canvass them.
If you are the victim of such actions or of any other suspicious behavior, you are advised to inform us immediately using the dedicated e-mail address: alert-fraud@vinci.com and to report the matter to the competent authorities.
The SEA HSL Tours-Bordeaux was inaugurated on 28 February 2017 in Villognon (western France), in the presence of French President François Hollande and of Alain Rousset, president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Xavier Huillard, chairman & CEO of VINCI, Laurent Cavrois, chairman of Lisea and Patrick Jeantet, chairman of SNCF Réseau.
The Group’s various business lines all contributed to what has been the biggest railway project in Europe and the biggest project ever in the history of VINCI. Due to come into service on 2 July 2017, the line will mean a journey time between Bordeaux and Paris of 2 hours and 4 minutes.
Its construction was completed in record time, ahead of the contractually agreed schedule (i.e. six years of planning and works). This concession has enabled 302 km of high-speed line to be built between Saint-Avertin (central France) and Ambarès-et-Lagrave (west of France) as well as the 38 km of the 10 connecting lines linking the new line to the urban centres in the south-west of France. In total, almost 10,000 employees participated in the implementation of this project.
Xavier Huillard underlined the great performance of the construction teams with 37 million manoirs without severe accident. The French President François Hollande said the project deserves “all superlatives”.
Société du Grand Paris awarded the joint venture made up of VINCI Construction (VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Dodin Campenon Bernard, VINCI Construction France and Botte Fondations), associated with Spie Batignolles, a major Grand Paris Express contract to build the T3C section of the Line 15 South. The section will link the underground Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart and the future Villejuif-Louis Aragon stations. This €926 million contract covers construction of a tunnel with a length of more than 8 kilometres of five new stations and eight shafts.
A large project in an urban environment
The T3C section is an outsized project calling for substantial logistics. It will involve two 10 metres diameter earth pressure balanced tunnel boring machines operating simultaneously, removal of 3.2 million tonnes of spoil and placing of more than 470,000 m3 of concrete.
The Villejuif Gustave-Roussy station, whose architecture and dimensions (65 metres diameter, 42 metres depth) epitomize the section, will connect Line 15 South and Line 14 South.»
Innovative, ambitious social measures
At peak activity, the project will include nearly 900 people. Extensive steps will be taken to train and induct the long-term unemployed. Support for this work integration programme will be provided by the ViE structure (VINCI insertion Emploi), which VINCI set up in 2011 to help Group subsidiaries carry out such measures. Lastly, an endowment fund, “Chantiers et Territoires Solidaires”, has been created to support public interest projects in the vicinity of the worksites. Spie batignolles is strongly committed to the integration of members of underprivileged communities, notably through the Fondation Spie Batignolles.»
On this occasion, VINCI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Xavier Huillard said: “We are very proud to have won this major contract with our partner. The Grand Paris Express project is strategically important for the future and the economic development of the Greater Paris area. It will create jobs, open up regions and release energies. The Group will bring its expertise to this ambitious undertaking over the next 20 years. The project is a huge technical and also human challenge.”
“The Spie Batignolles Group, which has already won a number of Grand Paris contracts, once again demonstrates the quality of its teams and expertise in taking on major infrastructure projects,” says Jean-Charles Robin, Chairman of the Spie Batignolles Executive Board. “The Group’s wide range of business activities and ability to bring its entities together to work in synergy enable Spie Batignolles to take on projects requiring project coordination and state-of-the-art technical expertise.”
This international joint venture consists of TBI companies Mobilis and Croonwolter&dros (25% each), DIMCO (DEME Infra Marine Contractors) (25%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (25%). The value of the contract is 492 million euros.
The Rijnland Route is the new road connection from Katwijk, via the A44, to the A4 at Leiden. The Rijnland Route is being constructed to improve the accessibility and traffic flow in the region, and stimulate economic growth.
Comol5 will be responsible for the reconstruction of the Leiden West motorway junction and the construction of the 4 km new road N434, including a 2.2 kilometre-length bored tunnel. Comol5 will also implement 12 km of motorway widening and adaptations to the A4 and A44 required for construction of the Rijnland Route. These will be made under traffic with pertaining interchanges. In addition to construction, which will be completed in about 6 years, the contract comprises maintenance for 15 years.
The project partners of Comol5 have ample experience with designing and developing large infrastructural projects such as bridges and tunnels, particularly bored tunnels. Projects they were involved in included a.o. construction of the Coentunnel and the Delft railway tunnel in the Netherlands by TBI and DIMCO, as well as the duplex tunnel (bored double-deck tunnel) in the A86 near Paris by VINCI.
Comol5’s tender turned out to be the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT). This means that not only price but also added value was considered. Criteria that play a role include limiting environmental nuisance, traffic nuisance and risks.
The opening of this infrastructure connecting Louisville, Kentucky and southern Indiana improves traffic flow and safety. The concession consortium led by VINCI Highways, VINCI Concessions’ subsidiary, is responsible for operation and maintenance of a major portion of the East End Crossing infrastructure for a period of 35 years. The consortium will be remunerated via availability-based fees.
The project was carried out under a PPP contract with a value of nearly $1 billion (€956 billion) signed in March 2013 by Indiana Finance Authority and the concession company WVB East End Partners, made up, in equal shares, of VINCI Highways, Walsh Investors and Bilfinger PI. It is one of the largest transportation improvement projects in the United States and VINCI’s first road infrastructure PPP in that country.
The opening of the motorway to the public marks the culmination of four years of design and construction work carried out by a joint venture made up of Walsh Construction (60%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (40%).
The new infrastructure includes a 762 metres cable-stayed bridge over the Ohio River with two iconic diamond-shaped piers, a 512 metres dual-tube tunnel on the Kentucky approach to the bridge, 19 standard engineering structures and road network and associated infrastructure upgrades. The construction phase was successful in terms of safety, with more than 1,100 days worked without lost-time accident.
Exemplary social, environmental and economic impact
The social and economic impact of the project, planned for half a century, will be reflected through the creation of thousands of jobs in the two states in coming years. In November 2016 the project received an EnvisionTM Platinum Award (Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure – Harvard Graduate School of Design) for its sustainable design, construction and operation.
The handover of this infrastructure constitutes a further success for VINCI’s design-build and concession model. United States is the Group’s fourth market.
Representatives from the donors countries coming from all around the world, Petro Porochenko the President of Ukraine, Xavier Huillard the Chairman & CEO of VINCI and Pierre Heilbronn Vice-President of EBRD together with the NOVARKA teams (50% VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader, and 50% Bouygues Travaux Publics) celebrated the end of the sliding operation of the New Safe Confinement over the damaged reactor. This technical achievement marks an historical day for Chernobyl.
[Replay] To watch the ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_jPEzJaI0c
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The end of the sliding operation is an historical progress and an exceptional technical achievement. It will be celebrated in Chernobyl on 29 November 2016 with the highest Ukrainian authorities representatives, Xavier Huillard Chairman & CEO of VINCI and the EBRD Vice-President Pierre Heilbronn attending.
You can watch a live streaming of this ceremony on VINCI Construction’s YouTube Channel.
The Chernobyl damaged reactor is now safely confined thanks to the work and dedication of the 10,000 employees of NOVARKA (50% VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader, and 50% Bouygues Travaux Publics) since the contract was signed in 2007. This project, stemming from the international ideas contest launched by Ukraine in 1992 and won by Campenon Bernard SGE (which later became VINCI Construction Grands Projets), allows both confinement and dismantling of the damaged reactor thanks to remote controlled tools installed inside the arch. The New safe Confinement has been built in front of the reactor, in a cleaned area, and then slid over 327 meters since the beginning of November 2016.
We’ve just completed the most important sliding operation ever done in the world, moving the biggest metallic structure (36,200 tonnes which can cover the Stade de France and whose weight is 3,5 times the weight of Eiffel Tower).
2017 will be dedicated to installation of the membranes to hermetically seal the arch over the damaged reactor, and to test the dismantling systems. The hand over is scheduled at the end of 2017.
[LIVE] You can watch a live streaming of Chernobyl reactor number 4 confinement ceremony on VINCI Construction’s YouTube Channel with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_jPEzJaI0c
The ceremony starts at 12 noon in Chernobyl, i.e. 11am in Paris and 10am GMT.
Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) is the largest moveable land-based structure ever built, with a span of 257 metres, a length of 162 metres, a height of 108 metres and a total weight of 36,000 tonnes equipped.
It will now be moved into its resting place over Chernobyl’s reactor 4 which was destroyed in the accident 30 years ago.
The sliding is done with help of a special skidding system that consists of 224 hydraulic jacks to push the arch 60 centimetres each stroke. It is anticipated that the total skid time will be around 40 hours of operation spread over a period of up to 5 days.
The NSC was constructed in a clean area near reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and will be slid over 327 metres to seal off the unit. It will make the site safe and allow for the eventual dismantling of the aging shelter currently housing the reactor and the management of the radioactive waste within the structure.
Ostap Semerak, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, said: “The start of the sliding of the Arch over reactor 4 at the Chernobyl NPP is the beginning of the end of a 30-year long fight with the consequences of the 1986 accident. The credit for construction of this one-of-a-kind technological structure goes to an expert team of engineers and builders. This is a historic step towards the improvement of environmental safety throughout the world, as well as in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. And it has only become possible thanks to immense international support. The fact that more than 40 contributing countries and donor countries united around the goal of protecting humanity from the radioactive consequences of the tragedy is another demonstration that environmental safety remains a priority for global policymakers. And I believe that the transformation of the exclusion zone into a safe area will demonstrate the change in Ukraine’s overall environmental policy, too.”
Igor Gramotkin, Director General of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, commented: “For us the arch is not just 36.000 tonnes of prefabricated metal. It is 36.000 tonnes of our belief in success, of trust in our site, our people and in Ukraine.”
Vince Novak, EBRD Director, Nuclear Safety, added: “This is the culmination of many years of hard work by Ukraine and the international community. The New Safe Confinement project would not have been possible without the support of the over 40 donor countries who are contributors to the Chernobyl Shelter Fund. The new structure illustrates what is possible in a spirit of determined and coordinated joint effort and thanks to the generous support of EBRD shareholders.” Nicolas Caille, project director for Novarka – the French construction consortium formed by VINCI Construction and Bouygues Construction – said: “This is a one-of-a-kind project serving the aims of the Ukrainian authorities. We are immensely proud of what we together with our partners have achieved. The New Safe Confinement shows what is technically possible. At the same time, given the circumstances, we must all hope that never again will a similar structure have to be built on the site of a nuclear accident and in a contaminated environment.”
The construction of the New Safe Confinement by Novarka started in 2012 after extensive preparatory works on the ground. Because of its vast dimensions the structure had to be built in two halves which were lifted and successfully joined together in 2015. The arch-shaped structure is fitted with an overhead crane to allow for the future dismantling of the existing shelter and the remains of reactor 4. The New Safe Confinement has a lifespan of at least100 years and will cost €1.5 billion.
Continuing its work with the Mandarin Oriental Group, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, in partnership with Petit (VINCI Construction France), signed the contract to renovate the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel in London, a project with a value of about £60 million (€69 million).
Following a one-year PCSA (Pre-Construction Services Agreement) period, the VINCI Construction teams, working for the first time under the PLENDI brand, will be responsible for renovating all rooms and public areas in the hotel.
The 12,000 m² refurbishment will be carried out in two nine-month phases. The first phase will cover all rooms in the Knightsbridge wing; the second phase the rooms overlooking Hyde Park.
Two large 165 m² penthouse suites with an exceptional view of the park will be built as an extension on the 9th floor roof. The hotel will remain open with reduced inventory throughout the works.
